Ricky Pempengco, a construction worker who reportedly left his family when the singer and her younger brother were children, was stabbed with an ice pick reportedly wielded by a drunk man whom he'd brushed up against at a grocery store south of Manila late Monday. A police officials tells AP that the killed appeared to be random. The suspect has not yet been arrested.

"I loved him and I will still love him," she writes on Twitter. "He's still my Dad after all."